Genderlock reminder to SE

[WaterShield]

Again I disagree, I can respect that insight but to me I believe a job like BLU which is already planned future support in the way of unique content, spell animations, balance and probably some sort of BLU duty finder along with it's own AF gear. Most likely (to my knowledge) took more developmental time than racial modeling, at least I believe modeling does not take up the same amount of dev hands that something like BLU, Ultimate or 24 man raids would take up. The only feasible issue would be QA testing time.

But again that's my take.

So what people don't account for, is that when you add a race you have many things to account for modeling wise. Every piece of gear that existed before needs to be adapted to the new models. Every new piece of gear from here on out will also be more work to implement, because they need more versions of it to work properly for each race. These things add up to an exponential increase in dev costs. 1 Job and its queues is nothing in comparison.

TLDR each new racial model is a massive commitment to more work for the life of the game.


"Edit: It wasn't about content it was about the work burden of modeling new gear for new races as well as the dev teams desire to add in a beastial race. Nowhere did they say "Well if we didn't do this we wouldn't have gotten 24 mans or 8 mans, we would have canceled content" Yoshida stated "If we did this we wouldn't have been able to have 2 races" this implies the racial modeling division is different from the background/enemy modeling division but connected to the gear modeling division as they aren't optimized to be separated faculties yet. "

It would have meant they would have just done Male and Female Hrothgar... and the same amount of resources would have been spent as what we're getting now. Doing both male and female of both races was never on the table.